Femtosecond carrier and exciton physics

W. H. Knox, R. L. Fork, M. C. Downer, D. A. B. Miller, D. S. Chemla, C. V. Shank, A. C. Gossard and W. Wiegmann, “Femtosecond Dynamics of Resonantly Excited Excitons in Room Temperature GaAs Quantum Wells,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1306‑1309 (1985).

W. H. Knox, C. Hirlimann, D. A. B. Miller, J. Shah, D. S. Chemla and C. V. Shank, “Femtosecond Excitation of Nonthermal Carrier Populations in GaAs Quantum Wells,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1191‑1193 (1986)

S. Schmitt-Rink, D. S. Chemla and D. A. B. Miller, “Theory of Transient Excitonic Optical Nonlinearities in Semiconductor Quantum-Well Structures,” Phys. Rev. B32, 6601‑6609 (1985)

W. H. Knox, D. S. Chemla, and D. A. B. Miller, “Femtosecond ac Stark Effect in Semiconductor Quantum Wells: Extreme Low- and High-Intensity Limits,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 1189‑1192 (1989)

S. A. Claussen, E. Tasyurek, J. E. Roth, and D. A. B. Miller, “Measurement and modeling of ultrafast carrier dynamics and transport in germanium/silicon-germanium quantum wells,” Opt. Express 18, 25596-25607 (2010)

See also the review

S. Schmitt-Rink, D. S. Chemla, and D. A. B. Miller, “Linear and nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor quantum wells,” Adv. Phys. 38, 89‑188 (1989)